Alexis Shotwell and Aurora Levins Morales offer us a helpful way forward as we consider our unwanted kin. “All of us inherit history,” Shotwell writes; “the life we enter is a product of what has come before us. We inherit the life experiences of our ancestors as well as the material conditions in which those experiences unfolded. That inheritance sets the conditions for our individual lives.” She continues: “We aren’t personally responsible for the social relations and material conditions that came before us or that we enter in to, but we can become responsible for what we do in response to
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